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The Transfiguration of Jesus: Narrative Meaning and Function of Mark 9:2–8, Matt 17:1–8 and Luke 9:28–36 is unavailable, but you can change that!

This is the first monograph devoted to all three accounts of the transfiguration of Jesus from a narrative-critical, audience-oriented perspective. It proposes a new literary genre designation for all three versions, that a “pivotal mandatory epiphany,” based upon the precedents in Numbers 22:31–35, Joshua 5:13–15, and 2 Maccabees 3:22–34. The background and meaning of each of the major motifs...

rather than an internal transformation invisible to the physical eye, as in 2 Cor 3:18 and Rom 12:2, the only other occurrences of the verb in the NT.3 The aorist passive form (μετεμορφώθη) indicates that this external transformation of the physical appearance of Jesus was effected objectively, from outside, by God (divine passive) rather than subjectively or interiorly by Jesus himself.4 Although it was while Jesus was praying that the appearance of his face became different in Luke 9:29, this
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